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move mountains

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move mountains 
1. if someone or someone's beliefs or feelings can move mountains, they can achieve something that is very difficult If faith can move mountains, we'll win the Cup.
2. if you would move mountains for someone, they are so important to you that you would do anything to please them He'd move mountains for her but she treats him like dirt.
See also: mountain, move

move mountains
to achieve something difficult Voters in his district have always recognized their representative's ability to move mountains.
See also: mountain, move


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He has my love not only because he is a poet of the most exquisite verity, but because he is a lover of men, with a faith in them such as can move mountains of ignorance, and dulness, and greed.
D'you mean to say that if you really believed you could move mountains you could?
Yes, prayer can move mountains, but one must have faith and not pray as Natasha and I used to as children, that the snow might turn into sugar- and then run out into the yard to see whether it had done so.
 
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